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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : April 1993</div>
    <p>
      <b>excel2sci</b> -  reads ascii Excel files</p>
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      <font color="blue">Calling Sequence</font>
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        <tt>M=excel2sci(fname [,sep])  </tt>
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        <tt>
          <b>fname</b>
        </tt>: character string. The file path</li>
      <li>
        <tt>
          <b>sep</b>
        </tt>: character string. Excel separator used, default value is ","</li>
      <li>
        <tt>
          <b>M</b>
        </tt>: matrix of strings</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    Given an ascii  file created by Excel using "Text and comma" format
    <tt>
        <b>exel2sci(fname)</b>
      </tt> returns the corresponding Scilab matrix of
    strings. Use <tt>
        <b>exel2sci(fname,sep )</b>
      </tt> for an other choice of
    separator.</p>
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    Note: You may eval all or part ot <tt>
        <b>M</b>
      </tt> using function <tt>
        <b>evstr</b>
      </tt>.</p>
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      <font color="blue">See Also</font>
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    <p>
      <a href="../fileio/read.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>read</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../programming/evstr.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>evstr</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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